whats easier to spray ,enamel ,or basecoat clearcoat,how do you spray the clearcoat? i never sprayed b/c c/c before is it sticky like enamel? i hate the enamel over spray fixing to paint a car just needed to know??<edited><editID>hotrodman</editID><editDate>38003.5767708333</editDate></edited>

 

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Sounds like you have no experience paiting with real paint. Either have someone teach you or have them do it.</P>


Base Coat can be acrylic enamel, laquer or polyurathane, even latex.</P>


What do you mean enamel is sticky?</P>


Over spray problems have nothing to do with the paint, it's the painter.</P>

 

Actually overspray has more to do with what kind of gun you're using. If you use a non-HVLP spray gun, the transfer efficiency is only 30%, meaning 70% of your material is wasted. If you use a HVLP gun, you have about 70-75% transfer efficiency. </P>


I think what you're referring to is single stage vs basecoat/clearcoat. Single stage paint jobs are cheaper, but with much less quality. You only want to use single stage if you want to paint a car to dump it off onto somebody else. If it's a car you plan on keeping, and care about the quality and longevity of the finish, use basecoat/clearcoat. Lacquer paints are older and not used as much anymore. Most often the paints used today are urethane.</P>


As far as clearcoat being "sticky" well yeah it's a little grabby when it's setting up, just like any other paint product. It's sticky enough for dust and other minute particles to stick to it if your painting environment isn't completely free of contaminants. I really hope you don't plan on spraying anything outside of a paint booth. That's a really bad idea, because you will get all kinds of nasty contaminants between coats and you will have many problems with your finish later on, not to mention all thedirt that will settle on your clear before it's dry. Also, I don't know about where you're at, but here it's illegal to spray VOC products anywhere other than a paint booth, and you will get fined big-time if you get caught.</P>


By the way I agree totally with what DW said. If you have never sprayed b/c-c/c before, let someone who knows how do it, or let somebody show you and supervise you. It's really not as simple as picking up the gun and spraying. If you're inexperienced you could apply the basecoat too wet or too dry, overlap improperly, and you will most likely have runs all over the place in your clear. You have to learn how much reducer to add to clear for a given temperature so it doesn't set up too fast or too slow. It's a learned science.</P><edited><editID>USAMuscle</editID><editDate>38003.5769675926</editDate></edited>

 

enamel over spray is bad for any around that you dont want painted.tools, tool boxes,etc just wanted to know if it was less messier,but i dont think so now,you cant buff out the clear coat,like enamel??

 

You can buff out clear. Just make sure youapply at least 2 coats if you want to buff so you have enough clear left after the buffing process.

 

how many coats is to many??

 

hey hotrod, hows that hangover.........

 

bad ,,,,real bad,,,,,,,,,,need to go drive my car to check it out ,,but i dont feel like going out!!

 

It might be the Flu man, did you get your shot ( and I dont mean nitrous) thisyear?............